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You Don't Hate Nintendo Enough

2025-09-10 Entertainment
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Nintendo's Aggressive Summoning Patent Threatens Gaming Creativity

Understand why Nintendo’s aggressive new patent targeting fundamental summoning mechanics is viewed as a stifling weapon against game development, even if primarily aimed at Palworld.

Short Summary

  • Nintendo filed a broad US patent covering specific control inputs for summoning and directing temporary allies (sub characters).
  • Industry concern exists that this patent aggressively targets foundational mechanics used across major RPGs and simulation games.
  • The move is condemned as anti-creative, using extensive patent stockpiling as a legal deterrent against competitive innovation.

This analysis breaks down the confusing patent jargon to reveal the core mechanics Nintendo claims ownership over and assesses the real-world impact on developers exploring creature-catching games or using minions.

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Top Comments (10)

@Experience_Gaming360 2025-09-10

“Summoning a character and letting it fight another” IS THE MOST GENERIC RPG THING EVER

40.7k 357 replies
@natesnotahero 2025-09-10

Genuinely ridiculous that a company can patent a basic game component

32.2k 265 replies
@MadIIMike 2025-09-10

After "Stop killing Games", we might need a "Start killing Nintendo" movement.

19.6k 171 replies
@JeyDubbu 2025-09-16

Watch Nintendo sue the court for jury summons.

373 1 replies
@joemanu96 2025-09-11

i walked my dog the other day and he growled at another dog. nintendo found out and is now suing me

11.9k 50 replies
@molhemalaa1252 2025-09-10

"I summon my lawyer to fight yours" Nintendo: Hey, we own that

20.4k 34 replies
@0x0404 2025-09-10

They REALLY got hurt directly by Palworld. It's crazy how violently they reacted to it. Anything but make pokemon a better game

13.3k 228 replies
@LoEffrt 2025-09-15

Nintendo is evil sure, but half of it is the fact that the law is so far behind on video games, stop killing games is a good example

439 4 replies
@Avokrypha 2025-09-10

10 years from now: "Nintendo claims the concept of video games."

11.0k 63 replies
@INeedTogepi 2025-09-11

It should be illegal to patent video game mechanics, since they are akin to painting/drawing methods, since both video games and paintings are art

3.5k 73 replies

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